SkyPix

A digital photographic storybook of clouds, weather and water by Roger Edwards.

“Lava-ly” Landscape

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This landscape, beautiful in a harsh and barren way, looks utterly inhospitable to anything but viewing from a safe vantage.  Yet underneath lies the cooked remains of part of the former Kalapana Gardens neighborhood, deeply buried by Kilauea's East Rift Zone lava in 1990, with fresh coats applied in 2010 and again in the last few years.  The deposit here was part of the final months of "61g", … [Read more...]

Sandhill Cranes in Auburn Sky

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Tinted skies of the sunrise hour host a rising streamer of sandhill cranes, outbound from their overnight riparian roost to the nutritious cornfields detritus of Nebraska's Platte Valley.  This was our first visit to the astounding spectacle that is hundreds of thousands of cranes rising from the river every morning and descending again by nightfall, their ancient calls filling the air in all … [Read more...]

Multicell Storm over Wiener Neustadt

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Bereft of pedestrians, thanks first to a Sunday evening lull and next to the looming, uncharacteristically dark and stormy sky, Wiener Neustadt presented a strangely abandoned aura, quiet but for the growing rumblings of atmospheric forces gathering overhead.  Several cells formed almost at once and nearly overhead, along a slow-moving outflow boundary from earlier convection that deluged the … [Read more...]

Split Rock Tree Puddle

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Numerous little pools from the day's earlier showers covered low and broken areas in the igneous bedrock beach at Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, alongside Lake Superior.  Out of all those puddles, I was fortunate to notice a special visual effect with this one:  a reflection of a sunlit tree, centering itself with uncanny symmetry on an aqueous chevron. 6 SW Beaver Bay MN (11 Jul 7) Looking … [Read more...]

Fractocumulus from Above

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The deep troposphere behind a convective complex often can be a richly layered melange of clouds.  This was no exception.  A broad area of outflow covered central and eastern Oklahoma from overnight thunderstorm clusters, scud (fractocumulus) in the rain-cooled boundary layer wafted across the area from the southeast, while streamers of altocumulus and a deck of anvil-residue cirrostratus layered … [Read more...]